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my boss walking into my office: hey i know you’re really busy today, do you have a moment?

me who’s been reading fanfiction for the last 4 hours: uhhh i think i can spare a few minutes

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I will not be silenced.

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no but the thing is, when the hero falls in love with the villain she is falling in love with the darkest parts of herself. she is owning her shadow and the owning makes her stronger. it is not about whether a ship is toxic or romanticising abuse because it’s not about two individuals. the struggle is not one between two people, just like the love is not between two people. when the hero falls in love with the villain she is loving herself. when she loves herself she is stronger, better, able to transform darkness instead of running from it. at the moment of loving, a person changes. the loved changes. and the love of the villain changes the hero. it’s all about this, don’t you see?

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— Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Violet Dickinson, September 1907

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insp

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the best het ship dynamic is a charismatic, idealistic woman who is determined to make the world a better place or die trying and a dude who's like "i wanna be her fucking dog"

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“We can rest now”

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—sue zhao

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If Buffy the Vampire Slayer was made now

Tinder episode where Buffy meets up with a guy from a dating app and he turns out to be a literal monster

Dawn and Spike swindling various demons to get money for Eras Tour tickets

Bisexual Xander

Lesbian Faith

420 episode where the scoobies think Giles is under some kind of spell but turns out he just accidentally ate Spike’s edibles

SUPERNATURAL CROSSOVER EPISODE

Endless “slay” jokes

Willow in a constant online battle with internet trolls that are actual trolls

Buffy and Faith being in love and secretly hooking up throughout season 3

Riley becoming a podcast bro

Festival episode where the scoobies go to Coachella and Ethan Rayne (disguised as a hippie) is up to some new magical fuckery

An influencer is chosen to be a slayer after Faith briefly dies and tries to be an “influenslayer”

Feel free to add more ⬇️

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the inherent comedy of btvs starting with a vampire who angsts constantly about being a vampire and turns not being able to be in the sun with Buffy into a whole big mopey thing and then a couple years later having another vampire date Buffy except he doesn't give a fuck at all about those things lmaoooo. The sun? no problem, he just throws a ratty blanket over his head and runs when he's out during the day. Zero angst about this from him, he makes do. The mortal/immortal thing never even crossed his mind as a problem, they'll cross that bridge when they get to it. Can't have kids? Why would he worry about giving something to Buffy that she never showed any interest in?

Spike is so funny, it never even occurred to him to angst about being in a vampire/human relationship, he literally doesn't care at all. I love him.

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My personal brand of humor is "horrible, useless advice delivered in an authoritative way" and this is the result of it

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#MonochromeMonday :

Eduard Wiiralt (Estonian, 1898-1954)

Tiger and Cat, 1950

Drypoint print, plate 29.3 × 39.2 cm

Kansallisgalleria / Finnish National Gallery 30.9.1958, C IV 991

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a day used to be 24hrs and cost $5 but nowadays a day only lasts 5hrs and they charge ya $20 just to live it. and you have to pay with an app

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Found my fav Slay the Princess route recently. Dragon my beloved. Your horrifying beak mouth was an impossible-to-refuse lip syncing challenge 💖

Shoutouts to @blacktabbygames for making such a cool game!